February 23rd membership meeting
Updates:
Greg has been working with the leaders of several alumni and friends groups to coordinate a series of calls to talk through “the basics” of how to start an alumni group, fundraising for your program, increasing and maintaining alumni engagement, etc. and we’ll be hosting that first call on Thursday, March 11th at 1pm. More info to come on that soon.
For those that are into podcasts, check out the two linked below - Greg shared Michael Lewis’s podcast during our recent board meeting and TED’s “How To Be A Better Human” was the one referenced by Nich during the call on Tuesday.
Reminders:
If you have or anticipate having an open position on your staff, please share that information with Tom Siddall to post on the IRCA’s LinkedIn. As we move forward we’ll likely find ways to build this out and make it more robust but for now we think it will be the best place to share stuff without adding more clutter to your inboxes. We encourage you to share information as soon as you’re able to, ideally in advance of it going live when possible. If you know of additional opportunities at camps, with USRowing, etc. feel free to share that with Tom as well.
Meeting notes:
Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championship Regattas Checklist 2020-2021
(Gary’s updated COVID numbers for member school states are located in the third tab of that same spreadsheet.)
NCAA Return to Championships Guidelines
Loaning ergs: NCAA rules timeline and update
DEI committee status update - first year outline, three main goals, and status as of Feb. 2021
Timestamps:
Intro (John) - 0:00
Spring season updates (Gary) - 4:30
Committee updates
Promotion and Preservation (Scott Frandsen, Greg Hughes) - 11:15
US National Team (Eric Gehrke) - 14:22
Legislative Review (AC Chacon) - 19:10
Membership (Tom Siddall) - 23:50
COVID-19 Task Force (Emma Overton) - 26:04
Awards and Polling (Rob Friedrich) - 27:57
DEI (Nich Lee Parker) - 29:45
Lightweight (Marty Crotty) - 32:37
Championship and Competition (Paul Bugenhagen) - 36:00
Division 3 (Marc Mandel) - 36:40
Admin updates (Kayleigh) - 38:40
Speaker: Curtis Jordan, intro’d by Greg - 40:35
Closing - 1:14:45